People are more
than just machines or animals: we are meaning makers. We are constantly making
meaning about our lives. And these meanings are connected to our culture and
history. If we focus on sex alone as the problem, and don't explore the
meanings you have and can make, we risk failing to understand what is most
personally important and relevant to you. This idea of treatment for sex
addiction can actually be obscuring many other details that factor into what is
affecting you and what you would prefer for your life. Furthermore, the idea of
"sex addiction' probably has you believing any problem (whatever it may be)
exists in you, instead of in a particular circumstance or relationship you are
involved with.

How Can Narrative Therapy Help?

Asking this
question "what is sex addiction?' is one way to begin investigating the problem
or problems that might be hidden by the idea of sex addiction. There are many
ways of proceeding in a therapeutic conversation that questions this idea of
sex addiction.

Where have you
heard these ideas about sex and sex addiction?

What has been
going for you that has lead to these "sex addiction' thoughts?

Ash Rehn is an online counsellor and therapist with over 20 years experience in counselling. He specialises in motivation & confidence, relationship issues, sexuality and addiction. His online counselling practice is called Forward Therapy.